The Importance of Access to Critical Weather Information for Pilots

That's what's happening at that airport right now or what's forecast for the next couple of days or the winds on the surface and the winds aloft over that airport every bit of information that we used to have to dial up and call a briefer on and and we can still do that but that information is now available instantly as a in a digital format before we leave for our trip. Of course, planning the trip is always the most crucial part when it comes to safely uh completing a trip.

I also like to go on a moving map display and here you'll see a trip that I have on Saturday where I'm going to depart Bartow and I'm going to run down to Sebring for a meeting. This will be in one of my customers' airplanes. Run down to Sebring for a meeting, and that meeting will probably take 30 or 45 minutes, and then I go from there directly down to Marathon and pick up my customer. From Marathon, I'm going to turn around and come right back to Bartow in his airplane. It's about a 200-mile-per-hour airplane; it's significantly different from the one I have. So, a lot of times we think bigger is better, and you're actually using an older iPad Mini right now.

I just wanted to get your thoughts on this. Is that what it would be like to try and work with the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro in the cockpit? Well, I can tell you right now; it doesn't weigh any more than my old iPad Mini, really. Yeah, I like the bigger screen, the bigger format, but for me, it's a matter of space, and it's actually easy to see right here that this would be more than sufficient for me flying for an airline or using in some of the four-seat succeed or light twin airplanes. There's plenty of room for it there because the cockpits are much bigger.

The Brand New iPad Mini

This is the brand new iPad Mini, and actually, just came out a week ago as we're recording this. What's new about it is that it has a Touch ID button to actually do your fingerprint to unlock it. There's no more home button; you just swipe up from the bottom to go home, kind of like some of the modern phones. The screen is actually a little bigger because it doesn't have those bezels at the top and bottom with that big button.

I was just curious what would you think of upgrading to something like that or how does that feel different? Would that bigger screen real estate benefit you here in the cockpit? I think the bigger screen would definitely benefit me. Absolutely, would like it about every three years or so; I typically upgrade iPads. The main advantage again is probably a faster processing speed and a little bit larger hard drive in addition to that. The battery life keeps getting better and better. Biggest weakness of the iPad is heat as in direct sunlight if it warms up, it'll shut off on me.

The iPad Pro for Pilots

They are rock-solid, and their stability; I would not be flying without it, and in fact, last week Sunday morning at three o'clock, I'm on an airplane heading to Bismarck, North Dakota, with my iPad and all my flight gear. I pick up an airplane in Bismarck fly from there down to Rapid City, and then from Rapid City all the way across the country back into Bartow on Wednesday day before yesterday that entire trip both of those trips but that trip in particular that airplane had 100-year-old technology in it, and I navigated 100 across the country on the iPad without a hiccup or a drip error. No problem.

Jumping from one airplane to another, have complete confidence in your technology and your ability to get there. That could never have been done before. Well, I would love to hear if there are other pilots watching this if you use the iPad Mini; if your experience has been the same, maybe as the upgrade time you're going to get the new mini for it. I'd love to hear from you down in the comments and don't forget to like this video and subscribe to the Apple Insider Channel.

Scott Thank You

Scott, thank you so much for being with me today. Yeah, sir, thank you; appreciate it. Appreciate it

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is scott oglesby scott has been flying for over 35 years so we went to the bartow executive airport to catch up and find out how he's been using ipad mini in his personal and business flying for the past eight years what's up everyone this is steven robles from apple insider and today i'm with a very special guest scott oglesby from tin cup aviation and this is his plane behind us and he's going to talk to us about being a pilot and actually using an ipad in his work in his piloting so scott thanks for joining us today oh you're quite welcome thank you for having me so how long have you been flying i started flying myself when i was in college i graduated high school here in south lakeland or in lakeland and i went to college in georgia and started working at the airport there and that was in 1985. all right and so this is your plan what do we have behind us here this is a 1947 piper pa12 i actually just bought this one here a couple of weeks ago this airplane has been rebuilt and reconfigured from its original configuration to be set up as a bush plane for alaska and out west and so forth so what do you do in your piloting work now i fly some cirrus airplanes which are evolving technology still to this day but they've been around for 15 or 20 years they're all glass cockpit so i do those i do quite a bit of ferry and delivery work around the country and to south america so whether it's an airplane with older technology in it or whether it's an airplane with current technology i use the ipads for all my weather briefing my flight planning and even my cross-country work even from here to costa rica across the gulf of mexico and so forth well we're going to go in the cockpit and see how scott uses his ipad when i was uh when i learned to fly everything was on paper charts and the internet and ipad and and iphones and all that technology didn't exist for that matter cell phones were still analog so every time we went on a trip we would break out our charts we'd map out our route sometimes all the way across the country and we'd literally with a with a ruler and and pencil we'd mark our route and so forth and then we did have instruments that were navigation instruments in the airplanes that were based on ground-based points and we'd fly a point to point to point when i got back in full time in 2013 everything had changed the internet was full strength we had cellular digital cellular phones and the ipad existed and so forth and there were all kinds of apps then and several of them garmin pilot is a navigation app there's one called flyq that i know a little bit about i have friends that use it but i don't and then for flight which is what i use primarily is an ipad and iphone based app that are literally moving maps with every bit of information available in the app that i used to have to make phone calls for go on the computer and look at at weather charts and so forth talk to weather briefers and then map it all out by hand i have everything available here right now in one app but with garmin pilot you know i can go anywhere in the world with the databases that are in it these are the same old charts that we used to use in paper form that have now been downloaded to a digital format but i can pull information such as wins aloft at various altitudes you know up into the flight levels up towards 40 000 feet or down as low as 3000 feet i can i can pull the flight categories of whether the weather at the given destination is vfr good visual flight rules weather like today or ifr instrument flight rules whether it's foggy overcast uh stormy whatever the case may be pull up a graphic representation of the weather like we have right now in louisiana through the coastal bend of texas area or if we're coming over here into florida we can see a lot of storms and weather that's built up and developed along the lower east coast i can also go to the reports on each individual airport and look at the weather that's happening at that airport right now or what's forecast for the next couple of days or the winds on the surface and the winds aloft over that airport every bit of information that we used to have to dial up and call a briefer on and and we can still do that but that information is now available instantaneously as a in a digital format before we leave for our trip and of course planning the trip is always the most crucial part when it comes to safely uh completing a trip i also can go on a moving map go to a moving map display and here you'll see a trip that i have on saturday where i'm going to depart barto and i'm going to run down to sebring for a meeting this will be in one of my customers airplanes run down to sebring for a meeting and that meeting will probably take 30 or 45 minutes and then i go from there directly down to marathon and pick up my customer and then from marathon i'm going to turn around and come right back to bartow and in his airplane it's about a 200 mile an hour airplane it's significantly different from this airplane that i have so a lot of times we think bigger is better and you're actually using an older ipad mini right now and i just wanted to get your thoughts this is actually the 12.9 inch the new ipad pro and so what would it be like to try and work with that in the cockpit well i can tell you right now it doesn't weigh any more than my many to speak of really yeah i like the bigger i like the bigger screen the bigger format but for me it's a matter of space and it's and it's really easy to see right here that that in this cockpit and my airplane will have this airplane will in the next few weeks have a mount for the ipad mini either up here or right down here i'll just have to rearrange some stuff the big one would be more than sufficient for me uh flying for the airline or uh which i also and moving into that arena now and be flying for an airline in in the next month or so but also uh in some of the the four-seat succeed or light twin airplanes there's plenty of room for it there because the cockpits are much bigger this is the brand new ipad mini it actually just came out a week ago as we're recording it so what's new about it is it has a touch id button to actually do your fingerprint to unlock it there's no more home button you just swipe up from the bottom to go home kind of like some of the modern phones and the screen is actually a little bigger because it doesn't have those bezels at the top and bottom with that big button so i was just curious what would you think of upgrading to something like that or how does that feel different or would that bigger screen real estate benefit you here in the cockpit i i think the bigger screen would definitely benefit me i absolutely would like it about every three years or so i typically upgrade ipads which it's getting close to time to do that again the main the main advantage again be probably a faster processing speed a little bit larger hard drive in addition to that the battery links the battery life keeps getting better and better biggest weakness of the ipad is heat as in direct sunlight if it warms up it'll shut off on me that's something i figured out a long time ago and i just actually when i'm flying sometimes i just throw a white cloth over it and that takes care of that but the uh but that's the only weakness i've found so far they are rock solid and their stability i i would not be flying without it and in fact last week sunday morning at three o'clock i'm on an airplane heading to bismarck north dakota with my ipad and all my flight gear and everything i pick up an airplane in bismarck fly from there down to rapid city and then from rapid city all the way across the country back into bartow on wednesday day before yesterday that entire trip both of those trips but that trip in particular that airplane had 100 old technology in it and i navigated 100 across the country on the ipad without a hiccup run drip error no problem and that could never have been done before to jump from one airplane to another and have complete confidence in your technology and your ability to get there well i would love to hear if there are other pilots watching this if you use the ipad mini if your experience has been the same and maybe as the upgrade time you're going to get the new mini for it i'd love to hear from you down in the comments and don't forget to like this video and subscribe to the apple insider channel and again scott thank you so much for being with me today yes sir thank you appreciate it appreciate itthis is scott oglesby scott has been flying for over 35 years so we went to the bartow executive airport to catch up and find out how he's been using ipad mini in his personal and business flying for the past eight years what's up everyone this is steven robles from apple insider and today i'm with a very special guest scott oglesby from tin cup aviation and this is his plane behind us and he's going to talk to us about being a pilot and actually using an ipad in his work in his piloting so scott thanks for joining us today oh you're quite welcome thank you for having me so how long have you been flying i started flying myself when i was in college i graduated high school here in south lakeland or in lakeland and i went to college in georgia and started working at the airport there and that was in 1985. all right and so this is your plan what do we have behind us here this is a 1947 piper pa12 i actually just bought this one here a couple of weeks ago this airplane has been rebuilt and reconfigured from its original configuration to be set up as a bush plane for alaska and out west and so forth so what do you do in your piloting work now i fly some cirrus airplanes which are evolving technology still to this day but they've been around for 15 or 20 years they're all glass cockpit so i do those i do quite a bit of ferry and delivery work around the country and to south america so whether it's an airplane with older technology in it or whether it's an airplane with current technology i use the ipads for all my weather briefing my flight planning and even my cross-country work even from here to costa rica across the gulf of mexico and so forth well we're going to go in the cockpit and see how scott uses his ipad when i was uh when i learned to fly everything was on paper charts and the internet and ipad and and iphones and all that technology didn't exist for that matter cell phones were still analog so every time we went on a trip we would break out our charts we'd map out our route sometimes all the way across the country and we'd literally with a with a ruler and and pencil we'd mark our route and so forth and then we did have instruments that were navigation instruments in the airplanes that were based on ground-based points and we'd fly a point to point to point when i got back in full time in 2013 everything had changed the internet was full strength we had cellular digital cellular phones and the ipad existed and so forth and there were all kinds of apps then and several of them garmin pilot is a navigation app there's one called flyq that i know a little bit about i have friends that use it but i don't and then for flight which is what i use primarily is an ipad and iphone based app that are literally moving maps with every bit of information available in the app that i used to have to make phone calls for go on the computer and look at at weather charts and so forth talk to weather briefers and then map it all out by hand i have everything available here right now in one app but with garmin pilot you know i can go anywhere in the world with the databases that are in it these are the same old charts that we used to use in paper form that have now been downloaded to a digital format but i can pull information such as wins aloft at various altitudes you know up into the flight levels up towards 40 000 feet or down as low as 3000 feet i can i can pull the flight categories of whether the weather at the given destination is vfr good visual flight rules weather like today or ifr instrument flight rules whether it's foggy overcast uh stormy whatever the case may be pull up a graphic representation of the weather like we have right now in louisiana through the coastal bend of texas area or if we're coming over here into florida we can see a lot of storms and weather that's built up and developed along the lower east coast i can also go to the reports on each individual airport and look at the weather that's happening at that airport right now or what's forecast for the next couple of days or the winds on the surface and the winds aloft over that airport every bit of information that we used to have to dial up and call a briefer on and and we can still do that but that information is now available instantaneously as a in a digital format before we leave for our trip and of course planning the trip is always the most crucial part when it comes to safely uh completing a trip i also can go on a moving map go to a moving map display and here you'll see a trip that i have on saturday where i'm going to depart barto and i'm going to run down to sebring for a meeting this will be in one of my customers airplanes run down to sebring for a meeting and that meeting will probably take 30 or 45 minutes and then i go from there directly down to marathon and pick up my customer and then from marathon i'm going to turn around and come right back to bartow and in his airplane it's about a 200 mile an hour airplane it's significantly different from this airplane that i have so a lot of times we think bigger is better and you're actually using an older ipad mini right now and i just wanted to get your thoughts this is actually the 12.9 inch the new ipad pro and so what would it be like to try and work with that in the cockpit well i can tell you right now it doesn't weigh any more than my many to speak of really yeah i like the bigger i like the bigger screen the bigger format but for me it's a matter of space and it's and it's really easy to see right here that that in this cockpit and my airplane will have this airplane will in the next few weeks have a mount for the ipad mini either up here or right down here i'll just have to rearrange some stuff the big one would be more than sufficient for me uh flying for the airline or uh which i also and moving into that arena now and be flying for an airline in in the next month or so but also uh in some of the the four-seat succeed or light twin airplanes there's plenty of room for it there because the cockpits are much bigger this is the brand new ipad mini it actually just came out a week ago as we're recording it so what's new about it is it has a touch id button to actually do your fingerprint to unlock it there's no more home button you just swipe up from the bottom to go home kind of like some of the modern phones and the screen is actually a little bigger because it doesn't have those bezels at the top and bottom with that big button so i was just curious what would you think of upgrading to something like that or how does that feel different or would that bigger screen real estate benefit you here in the cockpit i i think the bigger screen would definitely benefit me i absolutely would like it about every three years or so i typically upgrade ipads which it's getting close to time to do that again the main the main advantage again be probably a faster processing speed a little bit larger hard drive in addition to that the battery links the battery life keeps getting better and better biggest weakness of the ipad is heat as in direct sunlight if it warms up it'll shut off on me that's something i figured out a long time ago and i just actually when i'm flying sometimes i just throw a white cloth over it and that takes care of that but the uh but that's the only weakness i've found so far they are rock solid and their stability i i would not be flying without it and in fact last week sunday morning at three o'clock i'm on an airplane heading to bismarck north dakota with my ipad and all my flight gear and everything i pick up an airplane in bismarck fly from there down to rapid city and then from rapid city all the way across the country back into bartow on wednesday day before yesterday that entire trip both of those trips but that trip in particular that airplane had 100 old technology in it and i navigated 100 across the country on the ipad without a hiccup run drip error no problem and that could never have been done before to jump from one airplane to another and have complete confidence in your technology and your ability to get there well i would love to hear if there are other pilots watching this if you use the ipad mini if your experience has been the same and maybe as the upgrade time you're going to get the new mini for it i'd love to hear from you down in the comments and don't forget to like this video and subscribe to the apple insider channel and again scott thank you so much for being with me today yes sir thank you appreciate it appreciate it\n"